Funding for this research was provided by:
Diabetes Canada (Research Chair)
Fondation de la recherche en santé du Nouveau-Brunswick (Research Chair)
Article History
Received: 30 November 2018
Accepted: 13 May 2019
First Online: 31 May 2019
Authors’ information
: NG is an associate professor at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada). RL and JA are the manager of Quantitative Services and director of Health Analytics, respectively, at the New Brunswick Department of Health (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada).
: Ethics approval for the secondary analysis of de-identified information from administrative datasets was obtained from the University of New Brunswick Research Ethics Board (REB #2017-082).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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